Meet The Composters

Meet The Composters
Explore both the grounds and the forest to discover how compost is made and how we can protect our environment by composting the right things. Take a peek into our active wormery, meet the worms, and look for animals which recycle living material in the forest. Conduct a simple scientific investigation using worms. 

Learning objectives 

• To understand what compost is, how it is made and the importance of living things in composting.
• Explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive.
• To work scientifically by setting up a simple investigation involving worms.
• To identify that living things live in habitats to which they are suited.
• To treat animals and the environment with care and sensitivity.

National science curriculum links 
Y3
Animals, including humans

• Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat.
• Identify that humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection, and movement. 

Working scientifically

• Asking relevant questions and using different types of scientific enquiries to answer them.
• Setting up simple practical enquiries, comparative and fair tests.

Y4
Living things and their habitats

• Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways.
• Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider. environment. 
• Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things.

Animals, including humans 

• Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators, and prey. 

Working scientifically

• Asking relevant questions and using different types of scientific enquiries to answer them.
• Setting up simple practical enquiries, comparative and fair tests.

Y6
Living things and their habitats

• Describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including microorganisms, plants, and animals.
• Give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics.

Working scientifically

• Asking relevant questions and using different types of scientific enquiries to answer them.
• Setting up simple practical enquiries, comparative and fair tests.